Pregnancy after Fertility Treatments

Need prayers for tomorrow, please!!!

ttcnumbertwo:
I'll be exactly 13 weeks tomorrow and I'm having my NT scan tomorrow. Please pray that we get great news on the baby! On my home doppler, baby has a good, strong, regular heartbeat and seems to be very active, so I'm hoping for good news! I turned 41 in October, so I know I'm considered high-risk at this point because of my age. Please pray that this baby is doing well and will be born full-term and healthy! Thank you, ladies!

All the best for tomorrow. I would be both anxious and excited if it was me I have a few weeks to go. Lets us know how you get on. My friends same age got the results of a 25 year old lowest across the board

Thank you to all of you ladies for your support and prayers! I'm happy to report that all went well! At 13 weeks, the baby was measuring 13w/2-3d! With a heartbeat of 156, which is good for 13 weeks! The nuchal fold was measuring only 1.47mm, which is well within normal range, so I'm very happy and relieved about that!! : ) And baby was very active! We even got a cute shot of the baby facing down with it's butt up, like the pictures people sometimes have taken of their sleeping newborn! I also had a blood draw to have a more comprehensive conclusion of our results, which should be available in 2-3 weeks. I also had a blood draw to check my progesterone (at my request). Don't know what my progesterone level is though, since the fertility clinic I was going to doesn't even bother with checking women's progesterone level. They just have you take progesterone soon after ovulation just to be sure you're getting enough. Today was my last day using Crinone and I told the perinatologist that checked my NT scan that and he said that the placenta is making enough progesterone at this point to not need the Crinone, but I just wanted to be sure anyway (because I'm paranoid, lol). I'll have the results of the progesterone check on Monday. Hopefully, all will go well this weekend with no spotting from stopping the Crinone and I'll get great news about my progesterone level on Monday! Thank you ladies for all of your support!! : )

Thank you for sharing all that detail I am anxious about that stage but hope to get great results like you did too. Good idea getting your progesterone checked again to be sure. Let us know how your bloods go. Enjoy your pregnancy every day !

Thanks, hottes! I figured it would be a good idea to get my progesterone checked, despite the perinatologist saying that my placenta is producing enough progesterone. I have had a premature delivery, so I'm at risk of premature delivery again because of that. Much to my relief, he recommended that I start 17-p (17-alphahydroxyprogesterone caproate) shots at 16 weeks, ending them at 36 weeks to reduce my chances of having another preterm birth. It will reduce my chances of another preterm birth by about 1/3. The March of Dimes recommends them on their website for preterm birth prevention if you've had a previous preterm birth and if you are pregnant with a singleton. They're weekly PIO shots in alternating butt cheeks. I'll do what I've gotta do to have a full-term, healthy baby! ; ) I'll update with how my bloodwork went when I get that info. Hopefully all goes well!

Got my progesterone bloodwork results today! It's at 39-point-something, almost 40! That's at about a 15 1/2 to 16 week gestation level when I was 13 weeks on Friday! My doctor said that's really good! I'm so relieved! Now I can relax a little, since my last dose of Crinone was Friday!

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